Galgo News

Tag: rescue

  • El Paraiso Galgos – please help!

    The news is bad…..these 14 galgos will be euthanaised any day now! The associations who were supposed to be taking some haven’t turned up! Charl del Rio is heading there now to collect a couple but she can’t take more – can’t anyone out there help. I know the refuges and shelters are full to bursting, but please can’t someone get the galgos out? And I know, there will be dozens of other needy dogs in there, on death row. But on GN it’s the galgos and podencos we want to save. Other associations are there to take care of rescuing other breeds. And my heart bleeds for all the mixed breed dogs who don’t stand any chance of being saved.

    Please, someone help these galgos. Contact Charl del Rio Vera T R

    UPDATE 27 11 2010

    I now know that 8 of these galgos have been rescued from being killed, unconfirmed that possibly all of them have been.

  • Galgos dumped at El Paraiso perrera – volunteers work hard to save them

    People ‘on the ground’ in Spain will correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that there have been more abandoned galgos this year than before……..it seems to have been never ending all throughout the non-hunting season. And now there is news just in that upwards of 20 galgos have been taken to the El Paraiso perrera.

    Volunteers and associations are working round the clock to save them. Here’s what Charl del Rio says, after her visit to El Paraiso yesterday.

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  • Galga shot in the head – saved by the vet – the true Spain!

    Galga shot in the head 15 11 2010 350 This galga has been shot in the head. I don’t know the story behind how she was found – I’m waiting for the details – but suffice to say she was still alive when taken to the vet, who at the time of my receiving the photo, was operating to save her.

    The hunters in France, where I live, are lethal in more than one way! Around our home and land, their shooting days are Thursdays and Sundays. We keep our cat and dogs shut in the house on those days; the cat is shut in all day, much to her disgust; the dogs are only let out in the courtyard.

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  • SOS Galgos Photo Competition – Night of the Galgos, Barcelona, 4th December

    Night of the Galgos – Barcelona – fundraiser for SOS Galgos

    Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010
    Place: City Hall – Rambla de Catalunya nº 4,Barcelona
    Time: 19.00 – 23.00 h

    There will be two events in one:

    1 art exhibition and then a Concert with Shakata and Tony Ronald

    Join in the photo competition, send a photo of your galgo by email; there are 5 categories:

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  • Galgo Gandalf, Podenca Mary, looking for their forever homes

    Read the latest news about Gandalf, a galgo x, rescued from being killed by Tina Solera, and podenca Mary, rescued by Charl del Rio at a petrol filling station. Gandalf is now in a foster home in Spain, Mary is being fostered by Galgos France. If you can offer either of these deserving dogs a forever home, contact Charl.

    Video of Gandalf in his foster home

  • Podenco Barajas settles into his forever home – a happy ending

    Barajas 7 11 2010 250 Here’s an update on podenco Barajas,who was with Silvia in Valencia. He is now happy in his forever home in Holland, here’s the news from his adoptants.

    ‘Hi everybody,
    Here are some photos of Barajas. He is doing GREAT. You can see that his scare is changing into curiosity. This morning he came out of his basket on his own (yesterday we had to lift him). He let us caress him without looking away and lowering his ears. I don’t think he will take much time to get used to the habits of the house and the other dogs. They have already taught him a “bad” habbit and that is to lay on the sofa……

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  • Updates on the Seville galgos – Scooby Medina helps

    Seville rescue 1 10 2010 250 Here’s a message from Cobie, a Dutch volunteer who has travelled to Spain to help at the Scooby Medina refuge.

    ‘Scooby saved some 75 galgos from the area around Sevilla. A few weeks ago they went picking up some 25 galgos, Last Wednesday another 37 of which you can see the pictures and tomorrow (Tuesday) another 25 are being picked up by Scooby. They come from everywhere, taken from the streets, from gypsy camps, from perreras, also from the bloody perrera from Mairena.

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  • Seville gypsy camp – revealing the truth, exposing the suffering

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    This is a diabolical situation which has been ongoing for two or three days. Volunteers are working like mad to save these dogs.

    A volunteer writes. ‘Am writing to ask for help. I know everyone is saturated with dogs and right now, with the hunting season in full swing, every week we find more and more dogs. But I had to send this appeal.

    It’s a case in Seville in a shanty area. There are gypsies with many compounds made of metal where they put hundreds of dogs, above all galgos and podencos waiting to be tried by the gypsies as to if they can be used for hunting. Those that can are sold to the galgueros. The others they kill. They rent these places for months and have to pay the head of the gypsy hierarchy.

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  • Cordoba pregnant galga, saved, with her six puppies – forever homes needed

    Do you remember the story of the very pregnant galga, loose on the streets of Cordoba, rescuers vainly trying to catch her before she got injured. Well, we’ve got good news.

    Look at the link below in facebook which was sent to me by a very good friend, Ainara. I am sorry it is in Spanish…but you can see the photos of where she had her puppies…Thanks to the fact she hid, Arca de Noe of Cordoba could rescue them. Well done for all the volunteers who participated for so long in trying to rescue her!

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  • Galgo T-shirts for sale with Pro-Galgo – raising funds to save the dogs

    Pro-Galgo have some wonderful T-shirts for sale, to raise funds for the galgos and podencos in their care. Have a look at them on the website, with details of sizes and ordering.